Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com

>> Green Speed Dating for eco-minded singles. For diehard environmentalists who only date people with low carbon footprints, there’s now Green Speed Dating — happening on Father’s Day of all days, giving the event a slightly Freudian aspect…

>> Malibu bans plastic and bio-plastic bags Malibu says bye-bye to plastic bags! On Monday, the City Council voted to banish single-use plastic bags AND plastic-like compostable bags at all retail stores big and small. And to encourage the use of reusable bags, the Malibu City Council also directed its staff to research fees for paper bags.

>> Park(ing) Day L.A. returns to park more parks. Last September, parking spaces all over L.A. turned into temporary parks — for a few hours. Park(ing) Day Los Angeles brought activists and artists and other open-space-loving people together to take back the city spaces usually reserved for immobilized vehicles. And the second Parking Day L.A.’s coming this September — September 19, to be exact.

>> Silver Lake Green Drinks moves to Hollywood. What used to be East Side Green Drinks, meeting at Good Luck Bar in Silver Lake every third Thursday of the month, has now mysteriously become the West Hollywood / Silver Lake Green Drinks, despite the fact that the two neighborhoods are nowhere near each other.

And a couple linky posts:

>> A.M. Greenlist: Bicycles to polar bears

>> A.M. Greenlist: What’s gone green

>> A.M. Greenlist: AAA-esque service for bicycles

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